Editor

Syntax Highlighting

Settings

Fully customizable via Settings | Editor | Color Scheme | M68k Assembler.

Virtually every syntax element can be configured separately. Additional highlighting is performed for privileged instructions (possibly depending on operands). Enable Semantic highlighting to highlight macro call names using a configurable rainbow color scheme.

Parser Highlighting

Detailed on-the-fly semantic error highlighting for all instructions and directives

Method Separator

For macro/endm and section via Show method separators option in Settings | Editor | General | Appearance

Highlight matching brace and directives

Highlight Misc

• Highlight/navigate URLs in comments and string literals

Documentation

Hover: enable Show quick documentation on hover in Settings | Editor | Code Editing

Mnemonics

View | View Quick Documentation Show mnemonic documentation (or on mouse hover), current variant is underlined

M68k Browser tool window lists all supported mnemonics with additional reference documentation

Directives

View | View Quick Documentation Show directive reference documentation

Labels

View | Quick Documentation for labels: show preceding lines or EOL comment(s)

Ctrl+Click: Show type and value tooltip for labels

Literals

View | Quick Documentation for number literal: show in decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary notation

Labels

Navigate | Declaration or Usages - Ctrl+Click

Completion

Smart completion for labels, e.g., ranking current local labels and labels from the current file higher in completion popup.

Builtin Symbols

Completion and Ctrl+Click hover information

Quick Definition

View | Quick Definition to inspect label at caret in popup without leaving the current editor

Find Usages

Edit | Find Usages (grouped by type)

Rename Refactoring

Rename labels using Refactor | Rename across the whole project with usage preview

Editing

• Smart Edit | Extend/Shrink Selection
• Smart braces/quote handling
• Code | Comment with Line Comment
• Code | Move Element Left/Right for exg/cmpm, binary expressions, register list, macro call parameters, dc/dr values
• Move Caret to Code Block Start/End for matching directives
• Spellchecker with bundled dictionaries (M68k/Amiga)
• Code Folding (Settings | Editor | General | Code Folding)
  • Zero-terminated string literal (dc.b "a text",0 → "a text")
  • Custom regions via enclosing * region [placeholderText] / * endregion comments
• Live Templates (Settings | Editor | Live Templates)
• Code Style Settings (Settings | Editor | Code Style | M68k Assembler)
  • Tab Size
  • Visual Guides

Code Insight

Intentions

Invoke intention via Alt+Enter

Show Used/Free Registers for selection